Rivane Neuenschwander: At a Certain Distance
Malmö Konsthall
11 September – 14 November 2010
In her poetic works the Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (born 1967) explores themes like communication, migration and consumption. She works primarily with installations, film and photography. Her art has a special sensitivity and is not always based on the visual but also on sound, smell and sensation.

Julián Zugazagoitia begins his post Wednesday, Sept. 1, as the fifth Director & CEO of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. An international scholar, museum director and consultant, he has served for the past seven years as the Director/CEO of El Museo del Barrio in New York.

Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico
Art Institute of Chicago
September 16, 2010 – January 2, 2011
On September 16, 2010, Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial of its independence from Spain and the centennial of the 1910 Revolution that led to the formation of its modern republic. In recognition of these significant anniversaries, the Art Institute of Chicago joins dozens of other cultural organizations around Chicago to participate in the citywide celebration Mexico 2010.

Peter Fischli, David Weiss
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
September 18 – December 25, 2010
Traveling through an endless tunnel of changing light and color. A rat and bear go out on the town and through art and philosophy offer insights into the absurdities of the human condition. Everyday items teeter, precariously balanced. Energy passes by a whisker from one piece of junk to another, in a series of seemingly impromptu chain reactions. Airport scenes from across the globe float alongside a panoramic selection of this world’s doings, big and small, rendered in ninety or so pieces of clay.

Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr
Delaware Art Museum
September 26, 2010 – January 9, 2011
The Delaware Art Museum presents Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr., featuring more than 70 drawings, prints, sculptures, and books, on view September 26, 2010 – January 9, 2011. In the 1950s, Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) emerged as an important American artist. Placing the human figure at the center of his work, Baskin set himself against the abstraction and formalism that dominated art production and criticism at the time.

Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 3
Art Institute of Chicago
September 11, 2010 – January 2, 2011
This fall, acclaimed contemporary artist Jitish Kallat turns the landmark Art Institute Grand Staircase into a meditation on religious tolerance, drawing on the museum’s own history in concert with the most devastating terrorist attack on American soil. Public Notice 3 , a site-specific installation, brings together two key historical moments: the first Parliament of the World’s Religions, opening on September 11, 1893, in what is now the museum’s Fullerton Hall, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon 108 years later, on that very date. Public Notice 3–the first major presentation of Kallat’s work in an American museum–will be on view September 11, 2010 through January 2, 2011.

Larry Sultan / Mike Mandel – Evidence
Fotomuseum Winterthur
11.09.-14.11.2010
In 1977 Larry Sultan (1946-2009) and Mike Mandel (*1950) combed through thousands of photographs in the archives of the Bechtel Corporation, the Beverly Hills Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the U.S. Departments of the Interior, the Stanford Research Institute and a few dozen other companies, administrations and educational institutions. They were looking for photographs taken specifically for maximum objectivity. They ended up selecting a series of photographs which they printed with great care in a limited edition, as if they were art prints, with the simple title Evidence on the cover.